vector-animations-raw

Maya rigs, scenes, and other resources for the Vector Robot!

Sincere thanks to Randall Maas for his generous contributions to the OSKR project and to the Vector community!

Building new animations requires a license to Autodesk Maya 2018-2020. Once you have installed Maya, you will need to install the AnkiMenu plugin (see the installation guide below). Once that is done, please see the documentation folder for build guidelines.

AnkiMenu Installation:

macOS:

Install Maya 2018 or 2019

Open and close it

Install git and git-lfs with brew:

brew install git-lfs

Clone this git in your home directory:

cd ~

git clone https://github.com/digital-dream-labs/vector-animations-raw.git

Install pip for python2:

curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/pip/2.7/get-pip.py --output get-pip.py

sudo python2 get-pip.py

Install the Python packages:

python2.7 -m pip install CharDet httplib2 idna python-ldap oauth2 Pillow requests pySerial sortedcontainers tlslite urllib3 nose tornado

Copy the Maya.env:

cp ~/vector-animations-raw/tools/other/Maya.env ~/Library/Preferences/Autodesk/maya/2018/

Open Maya!

Windows 10:

Install Maya 2018 or 2019

Fully open it and close it once

Install Git Bash for Windows

Install Python 2.7.18

Install this VC redistributable

Go to the start menu, type cmd, then open it

Run these commands:

curl -o python_ldap-2.5.2-cp27-cp27m-win_amd64.whl https://download.lfd.uci.edu/pythonlibs/q4trcu4l/cp27/python_ldap-2.5.2-cp27-cp27m-win_amd64.whl

C:\Python27\python.exe -m pip install python_ldap-2.5.2-cp27-cp27m-win_amd64.whl

C:\Python27\python.exe -m pip install CharDet httplib2 idna oauth2 Pillow requests pySerial sortedcontainers tlslite urllib3 nose tornado

Open Git Bash from the start menu search

Run:

cd Documents

git clone https://github.com/digital-dream-labs/vector-animations-raw

cp vector-animations-raw/assets/tools/other/windowsMaya.env maya/2018/Maya.env (If you installed 2019, replace 2018 with 2019)

cp /c/Python27/Lib/site-packages/* vector-animations-raw/assets/tools/pylibs/downloaded/

Open Maya!

Linux:

Install Maya 2018 or 2019

Open and close it

Install the git-lfs package with your distro's package manager

Clone this git in your home directory:

cd ~

git clone https://github.com/digital-dream-labs/vector-animations-raw.git

Install pip for python2:

curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/pip/2.7/get-pip.py --output get-pip.py

sudo python2 get-pip.py

Install the Python packages:

python2.7 -m pip install CharDet httplib2 idna python-ldap oauth2 Pillow requests pySerial sortedcontainers tlslite urllib3 nose tornado

Copy the Maya.env:

cp ~/vector-animations-raw/tools/other/linuxMaya.env ~/maya/2018/

Open up ~/vector-animations-raw/assets/tools/pylibs/ankimaya/game_exporter.py in a text editor and replace GAME_EXPORTER_PLUGIN = "gameFbxExporter" with GAME_EXPORTER_PLUGIN = "fbxmaya.so"

Open Maya!